Pakistan? Or Republican-Controlled U.S. -- You Be the Judge

An alternative to democratic rule is command and control by a tiny elite. That's unfortunately what we have seen for much of the past decade in [ . . . ] -- and we're still living with the legacy of corruption, broken promises, abject poverty, the collapse of the rule of law.

I leave it to readers to determine, was Dick Cheney talking about the Palestinian territories, or the U.S. government.